Musings of an Incorrigible Writer

05/10/2016

If I Had a Time Machine...

If I had a time machine, I'd go back exactly three years to May 10, 2013. I did not know it at the time, but a harmless walk in the woods would change my life.

I saw the ticks and thought I got them all off of me. I don't remember being bitten, but in May the nymphs are tiny and would be easy to miss.

It was just a tranquil walk in the woods with my sister. And now I wake up every day in pain. A couple weeks after this walk the joint pain and stiffness began. Then the horrendous summer flu from which I never got better. And it's been a long hike through sludge ever since. Be careful out there, folks!